Judge Profile:

Chief Justice
Lorie
Skjerven
Gildea

Education

J.D. Degree, magna cum laude, order of the coif Georgetown University Law Center, 1986

Legal Background

Appointed as Chief Justice on July 1, 2010. Elected in 2012. Term expires Jan. 2019.

Appointed as Associate Justice on January 11, 2006.

Prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court, Gildea served as a judge in the Fourth Judicial District, Hennepin County.

Before being appointed to the bench in September 2005, Gildea was a prosecutor in the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office (2004-2005), Associate General Counsel at the University of Minnesota (1993-2004) and in private litigation practice at Arent Fox in Washington, D.C. (1986-1993).